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Maternal Behavior Modifications during Pretense and Their Long-Term Effects on Toddlers' Understanding of Pretense
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Nakamichi, Naoko – Journal of Cognition and Development, 2015
Recent studies indicate the need to investigate the sources of toddlers' understanding of another person's pretense. The present study is a cultural and longitudinal extension of the work of Lillard and Witherington (2004), who claimed that mothers modify their behaviors during pretense and that the some of these behavior modifications help their…
Descriptors: Mothers, Behavior Modification, Toddlers, Comprehension
Visual Short-Term Cued Recall Memory in Infancy.
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Brody, Leslie R. – Child Development, 1981
The visual short-term cued recall memory of 8-, 12-, and 16-month-olds was assessed in two experiments using an operant indirect delayed-reaction procedure. In each experiment, 12- and 16-month olds performed better than chance, whereas 8-month-old infants did not. (Author/DB)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Attention, Behavior Modification, Cues
3-Year Follow-up of the NIMH MTA Study
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Jensen, Peter S.; Arnold, L. Eugene; Swanson, James M.; Vitiello, Benedetto; Abikoff, Howard B.; Greenhill, Laurence L.; Hechtman, Lily; Hinshaw, Stephen P.; Pelham, William E.; Wells, Karen C.; Conners, C. Keith; Elliott, Glen R.; Epstein, Jeffery N.; Hoza, Betsy; March, John S.; Molina, Brooke S. G.; Newcorn, Jeffrey H.; Severe, Joanne B.; Wigal, Timothy; Gibbons, Robert D.; Hur, Kwan – Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 2007
Objective: In the intent-to-treat analysis of the Multimodal Treatment Study of Children With ADHD (MTA), the effects of medication management (MedMgt), behavior therapy (Beh), their combination (Comb), and usual community care (CC) differed at 14 and 24 months due to superiority of treatments that used the MTA medication algorithm (Comb+MedMgt)…
Descriptors: Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Behavior Modification, Psychopathology, Therapy
Contingency Learning in 9-Month-Old Infants with Down Syndrome.
Ohr, Phyllis S.; Fagen, Jeffrey W. – American Journal on Mental Retardation, 1994
The ability of 10 9-month-old infants with Down's syndrome to acquire a simple contingency was assessed. Unlike a group of nondisabled infants, the Down's syndrome infants did not, in general, learn the contingency. Results are related to the possibility of a decline in conditionability with age and a relationship between conditionability and…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Behavior Modification, Behavioral Science Research, Cognitive Development
Reflex Augmentation of a Tap-Elicited Eyeblink: The Effects of Tone Frequency and Tap Intensity.
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Cohen, Michelle E.; And Others – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1986
Describes two experiments that examined whether the amplitude of the human eyeblink by a mild tap between the eyebrows can be increased if a brief tone is presented simultaneously with the tap and how these effects change from newborn infants to adults. (HOD)
Descriptors: Adults, Age Differences, Auditory Stimuli, Behavior Modification